[Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough.
- Birkenhead (England). County Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1939
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1939] / Medical Officer of Health, Birkenhead County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Act, 1921, that they are incapable by reason of physical defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary Public Elementary Schools. Number on register 9 C.—CRIPPLED CHILDREN This section is confined to children (other than those diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis and in need of treatment for that disease) who are suffering from a degrge of crippling sufficiently severe to interfere materially with a child’s normal mode of life, i.e., children who generally speaking are unable to take part, ir; any complete sense, in physical exercises or games or such activities of the school curricu- lum as gardening or forms of handwork usually engaged in by other children, and in whose case the Medical Officer is jjrepared to certify under Section 55 of the Education Act, 1921, that they are incapable by reason of such physical defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary Public Elementary Schools. Number on register 19 D.—CHILDREN WITH HEART DISEASE This section is confined to children in whose case the iMedical Officer is prepared to certify, under Section 55 of the Education Act, 1921, that they are incapable by reason of such ])hysical defect of receiving proper benefit from the instruction in the ordinary Public Elementary Schools. Number on register 26 Special Educational Class(\s.—A total of 16 children, including a number whose heart condition was too severe to permit of their attendance at an ordinary elementary school, attended these classes, which are organised by the Invalid Children’s Association. CHILDE.EN SUFFERING FRO^I ^lULTIPLE DEFECTS Mental Defect (Feeble-minded and Crippled) 2 IMental Defect (Feeble-minded and Severe f^pilepsy) 1 Mental Defect (Feeble-minded and Heart Disease) 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28927333_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
